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A 

PASTORAL LETTER, 

OK THE * 

RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF THE SLAVES 

OF 

MEMBERS OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCtt 

IN 
THE STATE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA, 

PRKPAnXB 

AT THE REQUEST OF THE COSfVEXTTION 

OF THE 

CHURCHES OF THE DIOCESE. 
TO WHICH IS APPENDED 

^ TABLE OF SCEIPTURE LESSONS, TREPARED IN CONFORMITV WITH THE RESOLU- 
TION OF THE CONVENTION. 



By NATHANIEL BOWEN, D. D. 

Bishop of the Pro. Epig. Church in South-Carolina. 



PRINTED BY A. E. MILLER, 
No. 4 Broad-street, 



1835. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE CONVENTION OF THE 
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SOUTH-CAROLINA, HELD 
IN FEBRUARY, 1834, AND FEBRUARY, 1835. 

Journal of \2,2A, page 37 — "On motion of the Rev. Mi-. Young, Resolved, That a 
Committee of three Clerical, and three Lay Delegates of this Convention, be 
appointed to take into consideration the subject of the religious instruction of our 
slave population, and to report to the next annual Convention of the Church of the 
Diocese." 

"The following Committee were appointed, viz : the Rev. Thos. John Young, the 
Rev. C. E. Gadsden, D. D. the Rev. P. Trapier, Mr. Stephen EHiott, Jr., James H. 
Ladson, Esq. and the Hon. Lieut. Governor, C. C. Pinckney, Esq." 

Journal of \Z'^f>,page 39— "The Rev. Mr. Young, from the Committee on the in- 
struction of the coloured population, made a report at lensjth." 

"After discussion, on motion of Mr. Robt. Barnwell, the report was accepted." 
"The resolutions contained in the report, were then considered, and after some 
modification, were adopted as follows," viz : 

1. '■•Resolved, That the Bishop be respectfully requested to address a Pastoral 
Letter ou the subject, (embracing so much of the report, as he shall deem expedient) 
to the Clergy and Laity of the Diocese." 

2. " Resolved, That the Bishop be respectfully requested to prepare, or cause to be 
prepared, a Catechism and Scripture Lessons, for the use of the teachers (Clerical or 
Lay) of our coloured population." 



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CLERGY AND LAITY 



PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 



Brethpen — 

THE reluctance with which, in compliance with the desire 
of the Convention, as shown by the extracts given from the 
Journal of their proceedings, I should otherwise have pro- 
ceeded to address you on the subject of "the religious instruc- 
tion of our slave population," has been obviated in no consid- • / i 
erable degree, by the sense with which I am myself deeply 
affected, of its claims too long generally disregarded, and the 
strong sympathy, in the feeling with which I am myself pos- 
sessed respecting it, of many of the most wise and judicious, 
and at the same time, extensively interested, of the proprie- 
tors, embraced by the limits of our communion. There is, 
however, another, and more obvious reason, why any 
such reluctance, on my part, might be waived. Acting, on 
this occasion, as the mere organ of the Convention, and 
having nothing to do, but to report to you their views, I can- 
not but feel the responsibihty of my agency to be very light, 
and that it belongs to others, rather than myself, to vindi- 
cate and make good with their brethren, generally, almost 
every thing which this communication will be found to 
convey. The subject, however, as they have presented it, 
will, I flatter myself, meet with no other, than at least a 
friendly reception. 

The sentiment which the Committee of the Convention, 
in the beginning of their report on this subject, have ex- 



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pressed, is strongly entertained by many, and will have it# 
correctness disputed by none. " To Episcopalians of South 
Carolina, say they, the subject of the rehgious instmction of 
our slave population, is one of deep and vital interest. 
Formhig as we do, a large majority of the slave-holders in 
the low country, we, more than other denominations of 
Christians, are bound to inquire into the duty and means of 
affording such instruction to our slaves, as shall make them 
wise unto salvation." "Among us, must begin the good 
\vork, which, if entered upon with an humble reliance upon 
divine grace, must result in a harvest of abundant blessing 
to the Church and her members, both now and at that day, 
when we shall be called upon to give an account of our 
stewardship." 

Witli respect to the duty of the religious instruction of 
our slave population, I do not allow myself to question the 
existence among Christian people, of a common persua- 
sion of its imperative obligation, to the whole extent of its 
practicability. "Slaves" (says one of our most respectable 
and exemplary proprietors,) " are human beings ; hke the 
rest of our fellow creatures they must die, and render to 
God an account of their actions." "No Christian will deny 
the importance of religious instruction to slaves. On this 
head, there is no difference of opinion."* " If I know my 
own heart, and understand my own motives," (says another 
distinguished planter, an influential member of the House 
of Representatives, in the Legislature of the State, and to 
whom, in the last capacity, the pubhc are indebted for an 
important instrumentality in procuring the enactment of 
some provisions of law most hapi)ily adapted to the moral 
amelioration of our slaves,) "so far from obstructing the 
development of moral and religious feehngs in the slave by 
any measure, I would the rather lend my aid towards its 
encouragement; and as I have aheady declared, would glad- 

" Essay oil tlie Managernmt of Slavef, &c. br VVhiieinarsh B. Sc^|jiook, pp. 14, \->. 



ly appropriate the tithe of 1x13' income to the attainment of 
an object in every point of view so eminently desireable."* 

The importance and dcsireahleness of the reUgious in-' 
struction of slaves, must be understood to involve its reli- 
gious obligation. The writers whom I have quoted have 
meant, I have reason to believe, to assert nothing less. They 
have but expressed that wliich is, of course, the common 
sentiment of Christian people. The argument of which the 
mind of the Christian is in possession, whether resting on the 
letter of Scripture precept, or drawn from the principles of 
Christianity, is complete to demonstrate the indispensable 
duty of the father and master, in every instance, to have his 
hoasehold, of whomsoever it may consist, to the utmost that 
he can, kept, in the fear and knowledge of the Lord ; aad he 
who will make no use, to such an effect, of the authority with 
which Providence has invested him, or will neither by in- 
struction or example, endeavour that his household shall 
learn, and he faithful to religious obligation, and be set in 
the way of their immortal mterest, as the believer of the 
Gospel cannot but conceive it, is certainly unmindful of that 
which his own religious consistency, soundness, and safety 
should be understood to imply. 

To him, who is not, through the faith and profession of tJit 
Gospel^ yet prepared to admit the demands of religion on 
the subject, considerationsof humanity may be addressed, co 
which he needs not be supposed to be insensible. It is, 
often, not without good reason asserted, that, in general the 
condition of the slave among us, in comparison with the 
aboriginal condition from which he was taken, as well as 
that of the labouring poor of inost nations of the earth, al- 
though not slaves, is enviably good. Both in a temporal and 
moral point of view, this superiority of his condition must, 
I believe, be admitted. Its circumstances are those of great 
comparative elevation. Many of the arts of civilization, and 

• Letter to the Hon. Whitemari-h B. ISeatMook, Esq. by Edward R. Laurens, ii, 9. 



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the means of comfort are known to him, and are generally 
within the reach of his attainment : while by virtue of the 
discipline and control to which the innate evil of his na- 
ture is forcibly subjected, as well as by the gradual influence 
of the kindness and good treatment to which not even he 
can be insensible, he becomes, to a considerable extent, a 
humanized and ameliorated being. Still, while he is denied 
the knowledge of God according to the Scri})tures, and as 
involved in it, those consolations and hopes of religion, without 
which, happiness cannot be known in any circumstances of 
human existence, his condition remains, whatever may be 
its comparative advantages, one which it is melancholy and 
painful to contemplate. If it is temporally better, it is spir- 
itually worse than that even of the savage freedom from 
which he has been rescued. In that state he had not 
been hopeless as to Christian illumination. For him, as for 
all the human race, the command had been given, and must 
in his good time who gave it, have been executed, "to preach 
the Gospel to every creature." In its progress through the 
nations, the sound which is gone out into all the world, must 
have come to his ears. Even into the deep darkness of the 
shadow of death, which had enwrapt him, "the light which 
lighteneth every man that cometh into the world," must 
have one day shone. Deny your slaves the privilege of 
access to the means of Christian knowledge, and you charac- 
terize their condition, by a moral hopelessness, to which not 
even the roamer of the Wilderness, and the tenant of the 
forest, are consigned. 

One other view of the case may be presented. In what 
degree moi al obligation exists for your slaves you know not, 
or how it may be qualified. Yet they are placed where 
responsibility is imposed, and where the violation of it has 
its immediate penal consequences. Offences against the 
moral law, their ignorance does not excuse, and you annex 
present penalties to the crimes of which they are guilty, at 
once against it and your autliority. Shall they have no 



knowledge of higher and more solemn sanctions to restralii 
them from evil, than those which your will has instituted, 
no motive but the fear of their enforcement, to in Hue nee them, 
and yet be expected to be in all things faithful, upright, and 
pure ? You refer them not to God, and they are without him 
in the ivorld. Providence has subjected them to your con- 
trol and authority, and they undoubtedly are bound to obey 
the one, and be subjected to the other. Yet shall they know 
no reason for either, but that of the vanity or the bitter pre- 
sent effects to them, of resistance ? Will you det)rive the 
temptation to resistance of none of its natural strength ? That 
temptation, perhaps, incites them to the crime, of which 
the last and bitterest penalty of the law, is the consequence. 
Shall humanity not plead for them, that they may be saved 
from the power of this temptation? Shall they not have the 
terrorsof the Lord in aid of those of men, to restrain them from 
their ruin ? And more — shall not humanity be permitted to 
plead for them, that they may have the benign and cheering 
influeiK^e of Christian instruction, to reconcile them to their 
lot of necessary, inevitable, and not intolerable restraint — 
to infuse the happiness of " subjection, not only for wrath, 
but also tor conscience sake," and to illumine the otherwise 
gloomy scenes of their earthly toil and duty, with the hope 
of the reward in Heaven, that awaits alike the fidelity of 
the servant, as of the master, at the hands of him who has 
assigned to every one his lot and portion upon earth ? 

Passing, thus, by that part of the subject, which would 
consist of reasons of religious obligation given, for the Chris- 
tian instruction of our slaves, I would almost as transiently 
ti-eat the question of its policy. Experience has placed this 
beyond the possibihty of reasonable dispute. , The re})ort 
of the Committee, contains statements on this point, whose 
authenticity and correctness are perfectfiiUy unquestiona- 
ble. " As early (say they) as the year 1702, the vene- 
rable Society (in England) for the Propagation of the 
Gospel in Foreign Parts, sent out their first Missionary to 



this State, with particular directions for instructing the slave 
population of the country." " From that period, the work 
has been carried on, with varied success." 

" An appeal to facts will confirm the assertion, that when- 
ever the Gospel is preached in all its purity to these people, 
and rehgious instruction afforded, immense good has resul- 
ted , both ta the master and the slave. The effects produced 
by the labours of the Missionaries and Catechists of the 
Sopiety for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 
has been already stated. In the West-India Islands, the 
exertions of the Moravian Missionaries, have been crowned 
with eminent success. In the Island of St. Thomas — in 
that of Jamaica, Barbados and St. Kitts, they had the satis- 
faction to find such effects follow their labours, as con- 
vinced the Planter's of their advantage, and induced warm 
expressions from the]n, of gratitude, confidence and esteem." 

"'In our owj^ country also, facts prove the beneficial re- 
sults of proper religious instruction. In the insurrection of 
1712, in New- York, only two of the scholars of the Cate- 
chist of the Epi^opal Church, were even accused of being 
en'>aged. One of them was proved innocent, and the other (not 
a baptized person,) was not engaged in the murder commit- 
ted. At the time of the contemplated insurrection in Charles- 
ton in 1822, there were 316 coloured persons, communicants 
in our Episcopal Churches in that city, and a large, not ascer- 
tained number of worshippers not communicants, not one 
of whom was implicated ; and indeed the discovery of the 
plot is to be attributed to the just sense of duty entertained 
by individuals of that class, who were Episcopalians. The 
experience of youiv Committee, warrant them to assert, that 
the best ordtred, and most prosperous plantations, are those 
where true religion flourishes among the slaves. On the 
plantation of Mr. Clay, of Georgia,* a member of the Pres- 

* Mr. Clay's Pamphlet, is wortliy of general attention. If his plan may not be 
thought to be generally admissible or practicable, it will at least ahew that success in 
this important matter is attainable. — .\. B. 



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l)3'terian Cliurch, (whose admirable • details of a plan for 
the moral improvement of negroes on plantations,' ought to 
be read by every planter, and, who with a truly Christian 
zeal and fidelity, has devoted himself to the moral and re- 
ligious improvement of his slaves,) the orderly behaviour 
and happy condition of his people, are such as to cheer the 
heart of the philanthropist, and put to silence the cavils of 
the Northern fanatic and abohtionist. " If every body of 
negroes in the Southern States, (said an advocate of the Co- 
lonization Society to Mr. Clay, after looking through the 
arrangement of his plantation) was disciplined and instruct- 
ed as yours are, so far from wishing to colonize your slaves 
in Africa, I should be glad to bring all the Africans to you." 
They do more, and better work, with greater cheerfulness, 
and in less time, than before he introduced religious instruc- 
tion among them.* His factor's returns show that his income 
has rather increased than diminished. On the plantation 
of the Rev. Mr. Blodget, also of the Presbyterian Church in 
St. Luke's Parish, the slaves are assembled regularly to 
family prayers, morning and evening, and the result has 
been, that, that plantation is one of the best conducted, and 
most productive in proportion to the number of hands em- 
ployed, of any in that Parish. The labours of the Metho- 
dist Missionaries in St. Helena Parish, St. Luke's Parish, 
St. Bartholomew's Parish, and on the Santee Rivers, have 
been attended with such good effects, as to gain them the 
confidence of the planters concerned." 

"We might multiply instances, and state individual cases 
without number, but suflicient has been said to prove, that 
even were the duty not imj^erative, it would be sound policy 
in the planttn-to use every exertion — to employ every lawful 
means, to furnish his slaves with proper religious instruc- 
tion." 

tin a letter from ono of the members of liis family, if is said— "We have great rea- 
son to feel that the blessing of God attends these eflforts— our people are every year 
more contented, rheerful, and industrious. There is a decided improvement iu the 
morals of the w omen and the men, so far as we can judge." 

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The evidence thus given of the effect of religious instruc- 
tion, in the restraint })ut by it upon the worst passions of our 
nature, in its effect so to hunoanize, and soften and change, 
that temperament in the slave, which would have instigated 
him to deeds of the foulest crime, is evidence of its moral 
influence in the whole extent, in which it makes men "wise 
unto salvation." It bes])eaks " the fruits of the spirit, which 
are love, joy, peace, long suffering, patience, gentleness, meekness 
and hrotherbj kindness. It shows unequivocally the eflect of 
the inhibition, received by faith into the heart; ''Let all 
bitterness and wrath, and anger, he put away from you, with all 
malice'' — and of that important apostolic instruction — " ser- 
vants be obedient to them that are your masters according to the 
jlesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of yo%ir heart, as 
unto Christ ; with good will, doing service, as to the Lord, and 
not to men : knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, 
the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or freeJ" 
It is when effects and influences such as these are mani- 
fest, that we are authorized to pronounce with confidence 
on the utility and success of the rehgious instruction of the 
slave population of the country — and, of course, to assert 
that rehgious duty and pohcy, here go hand in hand. I am 
by no means disposed hastily to attach importance to the 
reports which are sometimes made to the religious pubhc, 
by various denominations, of the numbers of people ol 
colour, who attend religious ordinances — the crowds of 
them gathering at appointed places of religious resort, and 
joming their voices in loud and clamorous devotions. 
The proper inquiry is, what eflPect has the hearing of the 
word, and the instniction that is given him, upon the tem- 
per and the life of the negro. " Is he a better man in the 
condition in which Providence has placed him ^ Is he more 
honest, more temperate, more faithful, more quiet and con- 
tented .'' Is he better in his domestic relations ? Is he more 
kind and just, and friendly in his deportment towards his 
fellow slaves .'' Is he more sensible of the obligation of grati- 
tude and obedience towards his master ? Do his whole life 



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and conversation, evince that lie is " transformed by the 
rcmwing of his mind ?" Is he by the constraint of divine 
precept, as conveyed to him by the mouth of his rehgious 
instructors, from the word of God, so far as may be reason- 
ably expected of him, in all things, happily and cheerfully 
conformed to the necessity of his condition, and through the 
steady, diligent, faithful, peaceful, performance of all its 
duties, seeking, as the disciple and servant of Christ, to 
*^ tvorJc out his eternal salvation ?^^ 

" We are aware" (say the Committee,) " that it has been 
a common comi)laint among planters, that those of then- 
slaves, who professed to be followers of Christ, were gene- 
rally the most neghgent of their duty, and the most difficult 
lo manage. But the religion of Jesus, cannot produce this 
result. It has proceeded from a ivant of true religion. The 
master leaves his slave to procure instruction where he can, 
most frequently from those as ignorant as himself, and then 
complains, that religion produces what is the fruit of its 
abuse. Tliere are hypocrites and supersthious per.-ons 
among all classes of society. But let the master exert liiin- 
self to give or obtain for his slaves proper religious instruc- 
tion, and he will find the followers of the Cross of Christ, the 
most industrious, honest, submissive, and well ordered of his 
charge." 

The facts already adduced,* to sliew the happy practical 
efficacy of the religious instruction of our slaves, speak in- 
telligibly, and with demonstration for themselves. In many 
other instances the same result admits of being satisfactorily 
shewn. From a voluminous report of a Committee of the 
British House of Commons, ordered to be pubhshed in 1832, 
I might adduce much convincing evidence of the happiest 
efficacy of the religious instruction of negro slaves ; evidence 
irresistible, to shew that these people duly trained in the 

*The facts stated on page 8, in relation to Moravian Missionaries in the Britisli 
West Indies, are taken from a History of Moravian Missions, by Rev. J. Holmes, 
from which the information relative to the other Islands, has been derived. 'A note 
»f Uie Committee to tjiis effect, was omitted to be iaserted iu its proper place. 



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school of Christ, have been made lo a great extent, and 
through \ery numerous plantations, his disciples not in 
name onhj and in tongue, hut in deed and in truth. If less ot 
the influence of religious privilege, than was to be looked 
lor, has been reported to us from those possessions, since the 
extraordinary measures of the British Goveniment in rela- 
tion to them have been carried into effect, it is admissible to 
ask, if this be not the natural effect of a, perhaps, prema- 
ture and too sudden investment of the slaves, with a degree 
of freedom for which they were not adequately prepared. 
Even, however, under the trying circumstances, into which 
these unfortunate people have been thrown, by a legisla- 
tion, which dealing what was thought to be good to one 
class of subjects, has too slightly, perhaps, estimated the 
claims of others, we are warranted in asserting that the effect 
of religious instruction among them, has been most hap- 
pily restraining and conservative. It were, however, but 
unnecessarily to lengthen this communication, to quote trom 
the mass of documents, of which the report referred to 
consists, while observation and experience, supply us with 
a testimony at once direct and sufficient, in the indisput- 
able fact of a religious and moral character, of a peculiar 
value, transmitted from the earliest subjects of religious in- 
struction here, by the IMissionaries of the venerable So- 
ciety of which the Committee have spoken, and the cer- 
tain existence of a similar character now prevailing, where 
similar means have been perseveringly employed to pro- 
duce it. We may appeal, moreover, to any candid and 
reasonable inquirer into the merits of the question, whether 
the religious instruction of these people, be, according to 
his own observation, an abortive benevolence or not — and 
whether, as much at least, as circumstances would war- 
rant to be looked for, has not been, and is not, and may 
not be expected to be, its result. To whom much is given, of 
him miuh will be required. Take the question with a reference 
to the means and opportunity enjoyed, and the demand rea- 



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sonably fovinded in them of improvement, and say whether 
the comparison is indisputably much to the advantage of 
the most favoured of those who collectively compose the 
community, in wliich wo live. Inconsistenc}'" with profes- 
sion, and abuse or neglect of privilege, the too little moral 
influence of religion, its principles, offices and observances 
upon life and conduct, are to be admitted and deplored, 
among all ahke, who profess and call themselves Christians — 
certainly not in a greater proportion, when the circum- 
stances of their case are fairly considered, among those, 
whose claim to be instructed is under consideration, than 
among others. On this subject, I may be permitted 
to adduce the testimon}^ of one, who though dead, is 
well entitled, from his long and extensive experience of 
it, to be heard: I mean the late venerable Minister of 
the Baptist Church in this city. It is matter of painful 
regret, that I have not his written words, in which to 
convey the effect of his experience on his mind. It is, 
however, perfectly recollected, that when, some few years, 
before his death, he had expressed to me his concern for the 
existence of a prejudice against the religious instruction of 
our slave population, in the minds of respectable fellow-citi- 
zens, as seeming to find its justification in unhappy facts 
which had brought to light the crimes of some professing 
Christian people, long successfully concealed from Ministers 
and miistcrs by the plausible guise of religion, he declared 
it (the delusion of fanaticism among these yjeople admitted, 
for which others were more in fault than they, and the 
treachery and deceit natural to the slave, allowed for) to be 
the result of the long experience and observation of his 
Ministry, that the practical iniiuence of Christian profession 
and communion, was not by any means less, among them, 
than among those with whom, under other circumstances, 
he had so extensively been conversant. I adduce the testi- 
mony of Dr. Furman, as that which is, on every account, 
eminently entitled, on this subject, to carry with it authority. 



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The views in which the Committee of the Coiiventioix 
jiresented the im])orta.nt matter referred to them hy the 
Convent io<i, might he more extensively spread he fore you ; 
but enough, I persuade myself, has been, even in this cur- 
sory exhibition of its cbiiras, adduced, to justify me without 
detaining you from it longer, in proceeding to that, in which 
tlie interest of the subject will be seen to be concentrated, 
\\x : the inquiry in what manner the religious instruction of 
our slaves should be conducted, in order that we may feel 
that our Christian duty with respect to them is fulfilled, and 
the happiness and comfort at once of themselves, and of 
the communit3% secured. 

The report of the Committee, exhibited this part of the 
subject in con>;iderable variety and extent. I cannot but 
earnestly commend the greater jiart of wliat they have said, 
to the serious attention of all. 

" In recommending the means to be employed for effecting 
the proposed end, and winch, under existing circumstances, 
may be considered the best calculated to do so, your Com- 
mittee would first consider the persons most proper to be 
eni^rsed in the work. These are: 

" ]. Th; Clergy with their a.ssistants in Sunday Schools. 

"2. Lay Catechists usefully employed in the primitive ages 
of the Church, an<l now rendered absolutely necessary in 
our Church by the small number of Clergy. 

"3. The proprietors of slaves, or their agents or over- 
seers, with the assistance of their families. 

" 1. To the Clergy jiarticularly does it pertain to watch 
for souls — to warn evenj man of the danger of living without 
Christ in the world, to proclaim to all within the reach of 
liis insti-uction, the glad tidings of salvation through a cruci- 
fied and risen Redeemer, to guide and direct immortal souls 
in the path of duty, to spend and be spent in the service of 
their Lord. To the poor especially, they are sent, and the 
slave has peculiar claims on their labours and their prayers. 
The master may search the Scriptures for himself, and 
unaided by man, may find out the way of salvation. The 



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slave, by the circumstances of his condititin, and his igno- 
rance, must depend uptin the instruction of others. The 
responsibility of u Minister of Christ, in relation to our slave 
population, is deep and solemn, and if properly discharged, 
arduous in the extreme. In our low Country Parishes, it is 
impossible for one individual to perform all that his heart, 
and his judgment may direct, as necessary for the spiritual 
well iieing of the souls conmiitted to his charge. But be- 
cause he cannot do all that he would, shall he he idle on his 
oars and do nothing ? God forbid ! he can do much, very 
much for this portion of his flock. 

" The first method which we would suggest to him, is the 
establishment of Sunday Schools, in wliich, aided by the 
pious of his flock, he may inculcate the plaui and simple 
truths and precepts of the GospeL If the owners be duly 
impressed with the importance of the religious instruction of 
their slaves, he will find no difficulty in collecting a large 
number. The School should be assembled before the morn- 
inir service, or after it, and opened, and concluded with a 
form of prayer taken from the prayer book, or such form as 
may be prepared, or approved Ijy the Bishop. For the 
children of the School, we would recommend the use of 
' Catechism No. 2,' of the Protestant Episcopal Sunday 
School Union, (the Church Catechism, broken into short 
questions and answers) and also such Catechism as may be 
prepared, or be caused, as herein after proposed, to be pre- 
pared, by the Bishop : the ' Scripture Cards,' or por- 
tions of Scripture, illustrated by large Engravings, that 
both the eye and the ear may be engaged : ' Watts' 
Divine and Moral Songs, with his summary of the Ten 
Commandments, and our Saviour's Golden rule,' and 
* Short Prayers for morning and evening, adapted to the use 
of children,' (published by the Protestant Episcopal Sunday 
School Union.) The instruction of course to be altogether 
oral." 

"For the adults we would recommend, besides the Church 
Catechism, that the teachers read a certain portion of Scrip- 



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ture, (selected by the Minister,) and after giving a brief and 
simple explanation of each verse, ask some plain questions on 
what has been read, repeating them until the whole class 
are able to answer them correctly. And that the teacher 
may be enabled to explain properly such portions of Scrip- 
ture, the Minister should meet them on some day in the 
week, and furnish them by a lecture or otherwise, such di- 
rections as may be necessai-y to aid them in their work. 
We would also recommend that the Minister, once a month, 
at the opening of the School in a brief address, suited to the 
capacities of the scholars, dwell on some of the plain, but 
necessary doctrines of the Gospel. After the regular ser- 
vices of the white and coloured congregation united, perhaps 
it may be well to assemble the slaves by themselves, and 
after singing a hymn, giving it out line by line, address them 
in a brief exhortation, concluding with prayer. A class 
should be formed of the candidates lor Baptism, and the 
Lord's Supper to be instructed by the Minister himself. With 
respect to the Baptism of infants that must be left to the 
discretion of the Minister concerned. By visiting them in 
sickness and distress, he will manifest his interest in their 
welfare, and be enabled, mider God, to influence them for 
good. Above all, if he would be blessed in his labours, he 
should be much in prayer for them. So far, our remarks 
will apply equally to the Clcrg}'^ of the city and the country. 
To the countr}^ Clerg}'man, another field of usefulness is 
opened, which has been, and must continue to be blessed, if 
properly and prayerfully occupied. Let him set apart cer- 
tain days in each week, for visiting, with the consent of the 
pr()})rietors, the plantations in his neighbourhood, assembling 
the slaves for worship and instruction, and if time ])ermits, 
Catechising the younger among them. He should not take 
charge of a larger number of plantations than he can con- 
veniently visit once a fortnight. We are aware, that in re- 
commending this plan, we are making out a work of no 
small magnitude. But we do so in the supposition that the 
Clergy are willing to laboiir in their high and holy calling. 



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and that fliey are ready to spend, and he spent in the work 
of wiuniiig souls to Christ. We believe that with ordinary 
health and talents, they may carry our proposed plans mto 
effect." 

" 2. But let the Clergy exert themselves to the utmost of 
their strength and ability, yet, if they be unaided, but httle 
will be effected, compared with what must remain undone. 
The greatest number of plantations which a Clergyman 
having charge of a Congregation could conveniently attend, 
are seven or eight. Considering each plantation to average 
fifty slaves capable of receiving instruction, he would be 
enabled to instruct not more than three hundred and fifty, 
or four hundred. How small a proportion do these form to 
the actual number in many of our Country Parishes. In 
one of them,* the statistics of which are before us, there 
are upwards of six thousand slaves, between the ages of 10 
and 100 years. On some plantations which one of your 
Committee visited, he has found slaves of 70 or 80 years 
of age, who had never had proclaimed to them the glad 
tidings of salvation — who had never heard the preached 
word. 

"To remedy this deficiency of instruction, we would re- 
commend, did the wants of our Church permit it, the em- 
ployment of Clerg>'man of our Church, as Missionaries, 
particularly to this class of our community ; as is the case 
on the plantations of the Messrs. Clarkson, on the Wateree, 
where one of our Clergy is, we trust, as usefully a^ he is 
honorably employed. But years must elapse, we fear, be- 
fore this desirable end can be accomplished. We cannot, 
however, but indulge the hope, that the time is not far dis- 
tant, when the circumstances of the Church will permit it, 
and when the Lord will put it into the hearts of many of our 
younger Clerg^^ to devote themselves to this interesting 
work^ Until that period shall arrive, we would recommend 

* St. Luke's Parish. 



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to the planters of onr Church, the employment of Lay Cate^ 
chi.-ts. These Catechists might he chosen from among the, 
candidates for orders, or where these could not be obtained^ 
from among some pious, but needy members of our Church, 
lij the VVest-Iu(Ues, the labours of the Catecliists have been 
hi. ssed, and we doubt not, that under proper regulations, 
they would prove important auxiliaries to the Clergy in this 
w ork. The Catechists should visit the plantations which 
they might be engaged to attend, at appointed days and 
fixed hours. They should not take charge of a larger num- 
ber of })lantations, than would allow them to visit each, at 
least once a week.* We would recommend the same course 
of instruction to be pursued by them, under the direction of 
t le Minister of the Parish, as recommended for the Sunday 
8chf)ol teachers. Should Catechists be employed in the 
i i mediate vicinity of the Minister of the Parish, so as to free 
hiin from the duty of taking charge of any number of plan- 
latioiis, he should visit each of those imder their care at 
least once in three months. The Catechist should report to 
the Minister of the Parish, and if the Parish be vacant, to 
the Bishop." 1 will but add, he should in ever}' instance be 
approved and licensed by the ecclesiastical authority. 

" 3. We have spoken of the duty and plans to be adopted 
by the Clergy and Lay Catechists — a still more important 
link in the chain of the religious instruction of our slaves, is 
to be considered, — the plan to be pursued by the proprietors 
tlKnnselves, anrl their famdies — should they refuse their co- 
0[»(Tation and aid, the labours of the Clergy and Catechists 
wiil he comparatively of little avail ; at least, much less 
good will be effected than if they united in the work." 

"The espcrience of ages proves, that he who labours for 
the spiritual improvement oi' his household, is not left ' with- 
out vviUicss' — never labours altooether in vain. If in some 
instances, h( tail, he has still, 'that which the world can 

* In the Wesl'Indies, they are lequhed to visit each plantation three times a week, 



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neither give, nor take away,' the consciousness of having 
done his duty. In considering the plan of instruction wliich 
your Committee may suggest, let each master of slaves ask 
himself before God, is not this my duty ? And then let him 
pursue it, convinced, that however great his discouragements 
may be at first, by the blessing of God, great good must ul- 
timately result. In the course to be recommended, he must, 
to carry it into full effect, be aided by his family ; or should 
he be so situated, as to be compelled to reside at a distance 
from his slaves, by care in the choice of his agents and 
overseers, and by particular directions to them, his own ac- 
tive engagement in the work may be supplied." 

The pious advice of the Connnittee, wliich in this part of 
their report was given, that the slaves of every plantation 
should be assembled twice every day for family worship, is 
not here inserted, because it has seemed to propose more 
than would be generally practicable, or than proprietors 
could be induced to approve. It cannot be doubted, that so 
far as it may be practicable, and proprietors may see it to be 
good for them to atlopt it, the institution of such daily wor- 
ship would have a beneficial mfiuence — anrl greatly contri- 
bute to the promotion of sound and happy religion among 
the slaves. Where tiie numbers are small, and the lands 
over which they are dispersed for labour, are not too exten- 
sive, it is presumable that Christian masters will cheerfully, 
and fondly, adopt the practice of such a daily assembling of 
their slaves — but as a general rule, it is scarcely to be ex- 
pected, that it will receive the attention, which it is wished 
that the suggestions of the Committee should command. 
This final part of the report, closes with the following : 

*' In conclusion, your Committee remark that they offer 
this plan, merely as embodying suggestions, believing that 
pious masters, Catechists, and the Ministers having charge 
of the coloured people, on reflection, and after experience, 
will be best qualified to decide wliether to adopt them, or 
to mark out a plan for thenaselves. They commend their 



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re})ort ti) the blessing of God, without which, all our efforts 
will be in vain." 

I have thus put before you, brethren, the sense of the Con- 
ventlon of our Churches, on tlie subject of the religious in- 
struction of our slaves — the Convention having by the dis- 
posal they made of the report of their Committee, made its 
contents to be the counsel which they thought good for all 
of our communion. 

Permit me to add to what the Committee so justly said 
of the claims with which this subject so peculiarly addresses 
itself to the Protestant Episcopalians of South-Carolina, that 
for us, on another ground, the obligation exists, of deferring 
no longer to give our utmost attention to the religious instruc- 
tion of the slave population, subject to our care and authori- 
ty. In some form or other, religion will make its way 
among them. We cannot prevent by an}' vigilance which 
we can use, their being taught that which we should not 
desire,- or think it good that they should learn, nor can we 
prevent the prevalence among them of the perversion and 
delusion, that will make of them ready subjects of the worst 
influences of fanaticism, unless we pre-occupy and guard 
their minds, by means of such religious instruction as we 
believe to be, on all accounts, and in all respects, " good and 
profitable" for them. I would not here be mistaken. Of 
such Methodist Ministers, as 1 have known to be em- 
ployed among the plantations of the members of our Church, 
I have no rc.-isoii to speak, but with respect, as faithful and 
judicious men, whose services promise only that which is 
good. Still, I cannot but express my decided conviction, 
that it is better for us, so far as it may be possibly practica- 
ble, to confide this business to none, but those who will con- 
duct it, according to what we know to be the sober, scriptural, 
pi-actical, and at once simple and deeply impressive S3^steni 
of our own Church's doctrine and worship. From the train- 
ing of these people, as subjects of religious instruction, ac- 
cording to its fornaularies, great advantage has been seen to 



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come. Unwearied patience, in this humble labour of love, 
would, I have good reason to believe, be blessed with re- 
sults, certainly happy for its subjects, and greatly beneficial 
to the community. 

Having, brethren, as I have said, conveyed to you the 
views of the Convention as embodied in the report of their 
Committee, approved and adopted by them, I must bring 
this communication to a close ; resisting the inclination which 
the interest of the subject, in general, induces, to enlarge 
on some points cpnnccted with it, not unfit to engage the 
Pastoral counsel, with which, I have, specially, been asked 
to address \^ou. The subject of our slaves, is one which 
circumstances have made of so much delicacy ; it is in 
couscquence of an ilbinformed, unwise, and even a reckless 
philanthropy, affecting it, in other parts of our union, sur- • 
rounded with so much sensibility of alarm and offence, atid 
where, the moral interest of it is concerned, is, under the 
supposition ot even the best dispositions entertained among 
us to promote it, encumbered, confessedly, with so much 
difficulty, that tlie Ministers of religion cannot approach it, 
with too great caution and circumspection. They may, by 
their conduct, in relation to it, do much evil, where they 
contemplate only to do good. Yet they cannot be induced 
by any consideration, to forego the desire, natural and pro[)- 
er to their office, to carry among this class of their fellow 
men, the glad tidings of the salvation, with which alike for 
the rich and poor, the high and low, they are charged. 
Nor can they less desire, as members of a community, to 
whose fortunes whether for good or evil, this inheritance 
has, in the course of Providence, been given inseparably to 
belong, to contribute what they can, to the promotion of 
what it may have in it, for the common good, and the quali- 
fying and reducing of the evil, which the possession would 
seem most naturally to involve. As one of their number, I 
am ready to declare my full conviction, that neither the good 
of the community, so fer as it may consist with the per- 



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peluation, which I cannot see to be avoidable, of this pecu- 
harity of our civil ami social condition, can be secured, nor 
the evil which is obviously inseparable from it, be mitigated, 
without care extended on Christian principles, to the moral 
interest and character of these people. In this, indeed, I 
am ready to confess, that I see, in relation to them, the sum 
at once of our duty and our iuterest. There are schemes 
resjiecting them, now, and for some years past, on foot, 
among the pious, and on every account respectable, of our 
fellow citizens, in which I own myself unable to see it to be 
the duty or wisdom of the Christian to bear the part, which 
is so loudly urged on him, as, in a j^eculiar manner his. 
Both the duty and the wisdom of the Christian seem to me, 
in a manner greatly paramount, to consist, in giving them in 
the condition in which they are, the knowledge of God, ac- 
cording to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and cheerfully com- 
mitting the event of this course, jyrudenthj, intelligently, ob- 
servingly and conscientiously pursued, to the disposal of an 
allwise and benignant Providence. In other schemes re- 
ferred to, with the exception of their operation in the case 
of native Africans, recently captured from those abandoned 
adventurers, who, in spite of the concurrence of Christian 
nations for its suppression, still pursue their profligate, bar- 
barous, detestable slave coast traffic, I can see no other than 
a very questionable humanity, if not a policy which would 
make huniiinity a sacrifice to its claims. Whether it be a 
sound or a morbid sensibility, that gives rise to projects 
which would discharge our slaves from those circumstances 
of gradual amelioration, which characterize their condition 
as the servants of Christian people, I cannot but prefer to all 
such projects, a firm acquiescence in the necessity, to which, 
as a community, we are subjected, accompanied with a 
practical and active anxiety to know, and to the utmost, ful- 
fil, what is with respect to it, the duty of the Christian, as 
the Scriptures teach it. At least, until we can feel the call 
Vo be imperative on uS: to discharge them, unfitted for the- 



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privileges and advantages of freedom, into that wretched 
frt^edonj, where the crime and want, and universal degrada- 
tion dnd misery which make the condition of the natural 
man, would bitterly reproach our philanthnjpy, and make 
only compunction its reward, let us be content to make of 
them, to the utmost that we can, disciples of that Saviour, 
whose religion, has precepts as well for bond as free ; learn- 
ing at his mouth, to be huml)le, contented, quiet, peaceable, 
faithful, upright and pure, that they too, may be heirs, accor- 
ding to the promise, of eternal Ife. The trouble and nnhappi- 
ness of slave-proprietorship, are undoubtedly not magnified, 
in the complaint of them, which it is, so common to hear. 
There is but one way of comfortably modifying the pain 
and vexation of this lot of life. Experience has amply shewn 
it to be a comparatively easy lot to him, who, with a thought- 
ful, prudent, pious, yet vigilant and firm humanity, has ad- 
ministered the necessary government and control of his 
plantations. With respect to any discomfort that may una- 
voidably pertain to our peculiar circumstances of temporal 
inheritance, or any questions respecting them, that may 
arise or be suggested, to perplex and trouble us, we may 
find, I believe, in this, a satisfactory mode of obviating 
either. In short, let us do what else we will, we cannot 
fulfil the claims which are upon us, in the peculiar situa- 
tion, which has by inheritance been assigned us, unless we 
faithfiilly endeavour to discharge, so far as it may be prac- 
ticable, with respect to those of our felow beings, in whose 
behalf, it has been made my duty to address you, that 
which is our conscious Christian duty. 

It may consist with the design and expectation of the 
Convention, in requiring of me a communication of this na- 
ture, that 1 should not omit from it, the specific recommen- 
dation of such expedients, as might seem to myself, officially, 
to be practicable and proper. I have none to commend but 
such as the Committee pointed out, in the ])arts of their re- 
port which I have given. It has long been my earnest 



desire that the Clergy of our several Parishes could extend 
their pastoral care to the slaves of the members of their con- 
gregations. It has at the same time been obvious, that un- 
less they had otherwise very little duty attaching to their 
situations, it would be in their power to do very httle in this 
way. In a few instances, peculiar and uncommon vigour 
and energ}^ of body and spirit, might make the combination 
practicable, to a considerable extent, of both kinds of duty. 
Generally, however, it could not be expected. In all cases 
in which it might be done, it was suggested, that proprietors 
should, if possible, be induced to unite in a subscription to 
defray the expense of the additional labour to which their 
Ministers might be subjected, in visiting, in some stated and 
systematic manner, as many plantations as time and cir- 
cumstances would permit. For several years past, howe- 
ver, the wish has been entertained, and often in the course 
of those ^ears, expressed, that Ministers of our Church, 
might be employed, who in aid of, and in concurrence 
with the Rectors of the Parishes, might be charged 
with this species of duty, under such regulations, as 
might, to such Rectors seem suitable and necessary, 
and to proprietors, of their congregations — who should 
combine to provide for the supi)ort of such Ministers, 
as Chaplains of their estates. It cannot too much be re- 
gretted that the number of our Clergy, inadequate to 
services ordinarily requiring them, could admit of none to 
spare for this extraordinaiy requisition. The hope is not, 
however, relmquished, that some will be found willing and 
quahfied to be so employed, and that where they may be, 
proprietors will be found ready to provide the means of 
their support and comfort in the discharge of this humble 
and charitable, yet most important service. 

Where Clergymen cannot be had, and until they can be, 
the desire has been expressed, and is still entertained, that 
the Minister of the Parish, might be authorized by his pa- 
rishioners to select a Catechist. to whom he might commit 



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the instruction of their slaves, under his direction and. su- 
pervision, on his being Hcensed by the ecclesiastical 
authority. In all cases, whether as to Clergymen erapioy- 
ed, or Lay Catechists, it is deemed indispensably necessary 
that the most rigid and scrupulous conformity be observed 
to the order and discipline, which proprietors may deem 
best for their plantations. With these, no interference 
whatever should be allowed. Nor should the proprietor be 
required, or expected to let the services of a Minister or 
Catechist be continued on his plantation, longer than while 
he should be satisfied with their character and effect. 

To the Clergy, I can have but little to say, in addition to 
what has been repeatedly expressed to them individually 
and collectively, as my sense of their duty, touching this 
highly interesting matter. They will recollect that for 
many years, it has been urged that they should consider the 
slaves of their parishioners as included in their pastoral 
charge — and having a claim, to as great an extent as cir- 
cumstances might make reasonable, on their attention* 
They will indulge me in the repetition on this occasion, of 
my solicitude on the subject. As far as possible, I would 
entreat them to take the case of these people to heart — and 
and labour for their spiritual happiness to the utmost that 
their strength and opportunity will permit. They are of the 
household of those to whom they minister, and of course 
subject to their pastoral care — except so far as they may 
have become, by difference of persuasion, subject to the 
same care on the part of others. The Clergy may not, in 
many instances, have time or strength to spare to them ; but 
they may exert an influence in their behalf, which may be 
of great importance. They may find those to whose atten- 
tion they may safely and satisfactorily be committed — a,nd 
may exercise a wholesome and encouraging superintendence 
of the conduct of their religious instruction. They may at 
least cause themselves to be recognised as their spiritual 
pastors, having a care for their souls, and willing, and desir- 

4 



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DUB to promote their good. They may in a mRimer per- 
fectly consistent with their province, influence, v Itliout 
offence, the minds of proprietors, in behalf of the claims of 
humanity in this important particular — and even where ne- 
cessity might require, by their counsel and persuasion, oc- 
casion such modifications of sentiment in reference to it, as 
would induce civil measures to be modified in conformity 
with the demands of evangelical benevolence, towards these 
people, as its objects. I need not, however, point out to my 
brethren of the Ministry, the particulars in which they 
might exercise in this res])ect, the office of watchful, and 
and considerate spiritual pastors. They will see them 
readily enough, for themselves, and while they lament in 
how few particulars they can execute such an office as they 
woul<l, in all that they can, they will not fail to manifest for 
these people the concern which becomes them, as the agents 
of his grace and compassion, who came to preach the Gos- 
pel to the 'poor, and make all the people of the earth rejoice in his 
salvation. 

I have now to solicit your indulgent reception of what I 
have written, and subscribe myself, 

Your friend and brother in the Lord, 

NATHANIEL BOWEN. 



p. S. — The Catechism, which by the resolution of the 
Convention it is made the business of the Bishoj) to " ])re- 
pare, or cause to be prepared," is not ready for publication. 
The earfiest opportunity of which ni}^ numerous engage- 
ments would admit, has been taken, to execute the wish of 
the Convention, as to the views they have thought it fit and 
obligatory for them to adopt, in relation to the religious in- 
struction of our slaves. The table of Scripture lessons re- 
quired, is appended to this communication. The Catechism 
will make a separate pubfication — and a larger impression 
of it, than was necessary of tliis, be issued, as soon as cir- 
cumstances will permit. 



SELECTIONS FROM SCRIPTURE, 

FOR THE 

INSTRUCTION OF THE COLOURED PERSONS, 

IN CONNEXION 

WITH THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH 

IN THE 

DIOCESE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA; 



N. B. — It ifl not meant to define how much of each portion should be used for 
each lesson ; nor in what order the lessons should succeed each other : but merely to 
select such portions of Scripture as may be useful, either in part, or as a whole. 



GENESIS 1 Chap. 


GENESIS 


28 Chap. 


2 " 




29 « tov. 14. 


3 " 




32 « tov.22. 


4 to V. 16 (in- 




33 " 


clusive.*) 




37 " 


6 Chap. 




39 to V. 6, and 


7 " 




from V. 20 to 


8 " 




end. 


9 to V. 17th. 




40 " 


11 Chap, to V. 9. 




41 « 


12 " to V. 9. 


*» 


42 " 


13 " 




43 « 


15 "to V. 18. 




44 " 


17 " 




45 " 


18 from V. 17 to 




46 to V. 7, and 


end. 




from V. 28 


19 Chap, from v. 




to end. 


1 to 3, and from 


EXODUS 1 Chap, from V. 


V. 12 to 29 




6 to 14 and 


21 Chap. tov. 20. 




V. 22. 


22 " to V. 19. 




2 Chap. V. 1 to 


24 « 




JO, and 23d 


27 " 




to end. 



The other references throughout the uble, are also meant to be inclasive. 



28 



EXODUS 3 Chap. 


I KINGS 


8 Chap. 


4 " tov.23 




9 " 


8 " 




17 " 


9 " 




18 " 


10 " 




19 " 


11 " 


II KINGS 


2 " 


12 " 




4 *' 


14 " 




5 " 


16 " 




24 " 


17 " to V. 7. 




25 " 


19 « 


EZRA 


1 '* 


20 " tov. 23 


NEHEM. 


2 " 


32 " 




13 V. 15 to 22. 


33 " tov. 17 


JOB 


1 Chap. 


NUMBERS ]3 Chap, to v. 3, 




2 " 


and 17 to end. 




5 


14 Chap. 




7 " 


16 " 




9 « 


21 V. 4 to V. 9. 




14 " 


DEUTER. 4 Chap. tov. 40. 




42 " 


6 « 


PSALMS- 


— Selections from 


8 " 




these to be made 


9 " 




at the discretion 


10 V. 12 to end. 




of the Teacher. 


18 Chap. V. 9 to 


PROV. 


1 Chap. 


V. 20. 




2 " 


30 « 




3 " 


34 « 




4 « 


JOSHUA 3 Chap. 




6 V. 6 to 11, and 


6 " 




16 to 19. 


7 " 




11 Chap. 


23 " 




12 and many de- 


24 " 




tached pas- 


JUDGES 2 Chap. 




sagesjofv^hich 


I SAMUEL 3 " 




the selection 


4 to V. 18. 




must be left to 


6 Chap. 




individual 


7 from V. 1 to 6. 




judgment. 


12 Chap. 


ISALA.H 


1 Chap. V. 1 to 


16 to V. 13. 




6, and 16 to 


17 Chap. 




V. 20. 


IISAMU'L 16 " tov. 15. 




11 Chap. 


18 " 




35 " 


I KINGS 5 " 




40 " 


6 " 







'29 



ISAIAH 42Chap.iromv. I ISAIAH 65 Chap. 

1 to V. 12. 1 LAMENTATIONS 3 Chap. 



43 Chap. V. 1 


to V. 41. 


to 13. 


EZEKIEL 18 Chap. 


44 " 


33 Chap. from. v. 


52 *' froniv. 


1 to 20. 


7 and 


37 Chap. V. 1. 


53 " 


to 14. 


54 " 


DANIEL 3 Chap. 


55 " 


5 " 


58 " 


6 " 


60 to V. 14. 


JONAH— The whole. 


61 Chap, to V.3. 


MALACHI 3 Chap. 


63 " 


4 " 



From the Gospels and Acts, it is of little use to select, for almost every verse may be 
aiiitable at one time or another : but the parables in general, and the narratives of our 
Saviour's sufferings, death and resurrection, (particularly as given by St. John) may 
be deemed important— as also the foUowiug passages : 



MATT. 5 Chap. 

6 " 

7 *' 

25 from v. 31 to 
end. 
LUKE 13 Chap. 

15 " 
JOHN 3 " 

ACTS 2 Chap. 
3 " 

5 " 

8 " 

9 « 
10 " 

16 V. 23 to 34. 

17 Chap. V. 16 

to end. 

24 " 

25 " 

27 " 

28 " 
ROMANS 1 V. 18 to end. 

2 Chap. V. 1 to 
12, and V. 16. 

6 Chap. 



ROMANS 7 Chap. 

8 V. 1 to 18, and 
31st to end. 

12 Chap. 

13 " 

I CORIN. 1 V. 18 to end. 
11 Chap. V. 20 
to end. 
13 Chap. 
15 " 
II CORIN. 3 " 
4 " 
GAL AT. 5 V. 14 to end. 
EPHES. 5 Chap. 

6 V. 1 to 20. 
PHILIPP. 2 Chap. v. 1 to 

16. 

3 V. 3 to end. 

4 Chap. V. 4 to 

13. 

COLOS. 3 Chap. 

I THESS. 4 V. 13 to end. 

6 Chap. V. 1 to 

25. 



30 



TITUS 2 Chap. 


I PETER 


1 Chap. V. 13 


HEB. 1 " nnd 




to end. 


2 to V. 4. 




3 Chap. V. 1 to 


4 Chap, from V. 




18. 


9 to end. 


II PETER 


3 Chap.v. 8 to 


10 Chap, from V. 




14 


24 to end. 


I JOHN 


1 " 


11 Chap. 




2 V. 1 to 11. 


12 " 




3 Chap. 


13 V. lto8. 




4 V. 7 to end. 


JAMES 1 Chap. 


REVEL. 


7 Chap. V. 9 to 


2 from V. 8 to 




end. 


end. 




20 " V. 11 to 


3 Chap. 2d to 




end. 


end. 




21 V. ItoS. 


4 " 




22 Chap. 


5 V. 7 to end. 






Passages relating especially to Servants. 


MATT. 18 Chap. v. 23 


EPHES. 


6 V. 5 to 8. 


to end. 


COL. 


3 Chap. V. 22 


24 V. 45 to end. 




to 25. 


25 Chap. V. 14 


I TIM. 


6 Chap. vs. 1 


to 30 




and 2. 


LUKE 12 V. 42 to 48. 


TITUS 


2 Chap. 9 and 


I COR. 7 Chap. v. 20 




]0 


to 22 


I PETER 


2 V. 18 to end. 



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